Of course, the organization of society to meet human needs is a
degraded perversion[...] - What it is in itself is only tactically connected to what it does for us — that is (in part), what it trades us for its self-escalation. Our phenomenology is its camouflage. We contemptuously mock the trash
that it offers the masses, and then think we have understood something about capitalism, rather than about what capitalism has learnt to think of the apes it arose among.
If we’re going to be this thoughtless, Singularity will be very hard
indeed. Extinction might then be the best thing that could happen to our stubbornly idiotic species.
We will die because we preferred to assert values, rather than to investigate them. At least that is a romantic outcome, of a kind.
~N. Land
degraded perversion[...] - What it is in itself is only tactically connected to what it does for us — that is (in part), what it trades us for its self-escalation. Our phenomenology is its camouflage. We contemptuously mock the trash
that it offers the masses, and then think we have understood something about capitalism, rather than about what capitalism has learnt to think of the apes it arose among.
If we’re going to be this thoughtless, Singularity will be very hard
indeed. Extinction might then be the best thing that could happen to our stubbornly idiotic species.
We will die because we preferred to assert values, rather than to investigate them. At least that is a romantic outcome, of a kind.
~N. Land